Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
FOREIGN.

The circulation of two Paris newspa
pers has been prohibited in AlsaceLor
raiDe.
THE Emperor of China has postponed
his marriage because the Imperial ex
chequer is too low to stand it.
The suppressed branches of the Irish
league keep on holding meetings III open
defiance of the government.
The death is announced Of Mrs. Craih
(Dinah Maria Mulock,) of London, the
authoress.
SIR WILLIAM GULL, the distinguished
physician, of London, has been stricken
with paralysis. His mind continues clear.
THE Scottish Liberal Association hiss
deputed Messrs. A. G. Brown and Angus
Sutherland, members of Parliament, to
visit Ireland to assure the people Of their
sympathy.
The Queen Regent has signed decree
authorizing the construction of six iron
clads of 1000 tons each, which shall be
capable of attaining speed OF from six
teen to twenty miles an hour; also, four
large and six small torpedo boats.
TIE Bonn Zeitung says that the Bish-
ops Of Salisbury { and Lichffeld are at
on the relations of the Church OF Eng
land with the Old Catholics.
The alliaAce of Italy, Germany, and
Austria has been renewed for five years.
Italy reserves the right to maintain alb
solute neutrality in the event of Franco
! German war.
| The petroleum flowing out of the wells
at Baku is seriously inundatlng the
town. It is impossible to store the OIL
| The Japanese government has request
| ed the italian government to appoint
lawyer to proceed to Japan to act as the
legal adviser of the japanese authorl-
II is stated that the Emperor OF Brazil,
has announced his intention of abdicat-
| ing his throne owing to his health being
| i'm paired.
| PRINCE BISMARCK, on the twenty fifth
anniversary Of his CHARACTERISTIC, re-
ceiVed writing desk made from cannon
balls. On accepting the anomalous pre-
sent, he exclaimed, God grant that can
non balls may always be as peacefully
Employed"
| The produce associations report for
| September says that the cotton crop will
| probably equal that of last season, name
| ly 100000 cantars, gross. The quality
of the crop in Upper Egypt has improv-
ed, but it is too early to judge of the
crop in Lower Egypt. The weather was
hot and favorable to cotton.
TWELVE peasants who left the town of
Plesti, sixty-fve miles north of Buchar-
est to destroy the wolves which infest
the district, were overpowered by the fer
oceOus beasts and seven OF them we're de-
| voured. The remaining five escaped
badly mangled.
The organ of the war Office says Ayoub
Khan has reached Ghanzi. His influence,
the paper adds, has so seriously affected
the situation in Afghanistan that the
ameer's position in Cabul has become
one of extreme difficulty, and he evident
| ly doubts of ultimate success, for be is
sending his treasure and valuables' to
Khana-I-Bad.
| INTELLIGENCE has been received that an
outbreak has occurred among the Chi
| nese soldiers stationed in Dublaschan, on
| the Russo Chinese frontier. Several of
fcers were murdered. A quantity of mu-
n1tions and a sum of money belongirgto
the government was seized by the muffin
| GERS. The commandments of the
troops was panic stricken and fed.
LATER reports from China respecting
| the China-American banker and tele
graphic syndicate for which County
Mitkiewiez negotiated concessions, are
very conflicting. It is stated that Yen,
president of the board of revenue, has
strongly petitioned the empress not to
grant the proposed concessions, and the
| China Merchants company has repudiat-
all connection with the syndicate. Eng
lish interests in China have been endea-
voring to prevent the final consumma-
| ton of the grant to America.